Reports flooded in today stating that the warning areas off the coast of Southern California—around the Navy’s Pacific Missile Range —would be activated, causing noise issues associated with re-routed LAX operations. Theories flew, some being totally absurd. In the end, it was exactly what it should have been—a Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile test. Read more…
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Sorry, No Aliens! The Navy Test Fires Trident Missile Off The Coast Of California
On this very night in 1938, a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds may or may not have caused mass hysteria for American listeners. But there’s another War of the Worlds that scared me much more as a kid. For me, there’s the HG Wells version, the Orson Welles version, and the rock opera version by composer Jeff Wayne, released in 1978. Read more…
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Listen to the Dad Rock Version of The War of the Worlds
One of the essential parts of any home security system is a door detector that lets you know when a door opens. Over on Adafruit, they show you how to build your own that hooks into IFTTT so you can be alerted any way you like when the door opens. Read more…
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Build a Simple Door Detector with IFTTT Alerts Using an Arduino
In a post on Wednesday, researchers Alex Halderman and Nadia Heninger presented compelling research suggesting that the NSA has developed the capability to decrypt a large number of HTTPS, SSH, and VPN connections using an attack on common implementations of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm with 1024-bit primes. Earlier in the year, they were part of a research group that published a study of the Logjam attack, which leveraged overlooked and outdated code to enforce “export-grade” (downgraded, 512-bit) parameters for Diffie-Hellman. By performing a cost analysis of the algorithm with stronger 1024-bit parameters and comparing that with what we know of the NSA “ black budget ” (and reading between the lines of several leaked documents about NSA interception capabilities) they concluded that it’s likely NSA has been breaking 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman for some time now. Read more…
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How to Protect Yourself from the NSA If You Use 1024-bit DH Encryption
Hanging out at a museum is a great way to spend an afternoon. It can also be a frugal way to spend an afternoon, as many museum admission prices are cheap—or better yet, free. Cheapism offers a list of cheap or free museums in every U.S. state. Read more…
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The Best Cheap (or Free) Museums in All 50 States
Radiation tends to strike fear in the hearts of the general populace, particularly the ionizing variety produced by X-rays and radioactive elements. But most have no idea what actual radiation looks like. Now a French organization c alled CloudyLabs has found a way to let us see the process in action using a simple cloud chamber. Read more…
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This is What Radiation from a Chunk of Uranium Looks Like
The Illapel earthquake that hit Chile in September shifted the ground by up to 1.4 meters. That’s awfully far to move the not-so-steady rock below our feet. Read more…
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Parts of Chile Moved More Than a Meter in the Illapel Earthquake
We’ve been seeing teasers about the Tesla Model X for years, but as the first six vehicles finally make their way into the hands of owners tonight we’ve got more info on falcon-doors, mono-post seats, and the SUV’s bioweapon defense mode. Read more…
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Tesla Model X: This Is It
One of Apple’s big talking points when they introduced iOS 9 was how Siri was going to be better and more “proactive.” We didn’t really have any clue what that meant initially, but now that iOS has been around for a week, we’ve got a much better idea of what you can ask it to do. Let’s take a look. Read more…
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All the New Stuff You Can Ask Siri in iOS 9
A road trip is an epic adventure, but you don’t need a car to see some beautiful parts of America. Read more…
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Take a Road Trip Across the US by Train for Under $500